After the recent disclosure that Shah Rukh Khan is playing an autistic Muslim character in New York for Karan Johar's 'My Name Is Khan', comes the news that Anil Kapoor is also doing an autistic act for Subhash Ghai's 'Yuvvraaj'.

This is not for the first time that Anil Kapoor is playing an autistic character. Two decades back, in K Vishwanath's 'Eeshwar' Anil played the role of a 'slow' saintly man, who wins over a village widow.

London - A Libyan man convicted of the 1988 bombing of an American airliner over Lockerbie in Scotland in which 270 people died will not be released early from jail on health grounds, appeal judges in Scotland ruled Friday.

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, 56, had applied for the interim release, pending a separate appeal against his conviction, on the grounds that he suffered from advanced prostate cancer.

Lusaka- Zambia's newly-elected President Rupiah Banda on Friday fired finance minister N'gandu Magande, who ran against him for the presidential nomination of the ruling Movement for Multi-Party Democracy.

Announcing his cabinet, Banda said Situmbeko Musokotwane, a former treasury secretary in the finance ministry and former advisor to deceased ex-president Levy Mwanawasa, would take Magande's place.

Amsterdam - Disappointment among the Dutch political left and relief among the political right followed Thursday night's decision by Dutch integration minister Ella Vogelaar to step down.

The decision was prompted by an intraparty dispute over registering juvenile immigrants from the Dutch Antilles in which she lost the backing of her party. She has also been plagued by clumsy performances on Dutch media, which routinely airs footage of her refusing to answer reporters' questions.

Defying the stereotype yet again - after his directorial debut 'My Brother Nikhil', and 'Bas Ek Pal' - director Onir's new outing 'Sorry Bhai' is unconventional too.

Like his previous films, 'Sorry Bhai' has a bold story to tell as well, and Onir has narrated it with utmost sensitivity. Slated for release on November 28, the film tackles the concept of forbidden love in a progressive contemporary manner.

Madrid - The condition of Spanish golfer Severiano Ballesteros continues to improve three weeks after undergoing brain surgery for the third time within a month and could leave intensive care in the coming week, Madrid's La Paz hospital said Friday.

Ballesteros, 51, underwent a six-hour operation last month to alleviate pressure on his brain and also had a tracheotomy to help him breathe.